Mar (surname)


Mar is a Chinese and Scottish surname.

Origins

Mar may be a variant spelling of:
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, as of 2011 there were 81 people on the island of Great Britain and one on the island of Ireland with the surname Mar. In 1881 there had been 54 people with the surname in Great Britain.
The 2010 United States Census found 5,375 people with the surname Mar, making it the 6,342nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 4,327 in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about 13% of bearers of the surname identified as White, 49% as Asian, and 30% as Hispanic.

Notable people